Koreanosaurus
| Koreanosaurus | |
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| Fossil holotype | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Family: | †Thescelosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Orodrominae |
| Genus: | †Koreanosaurus Huh et al., 2011 |
| Species: | †K. boseongensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Koreanosaurus boseongensis Huh et al., 2011
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Koreanosaurus (lit. 'Korean lizard') is a genus of orodromine neornithischian dinosaur. One species has been described, Koreanosaurus boseongensis.
Discovery
In 2003, three specimens of Koreanosaurus were found in the
master's thesis by Dae-Gil Lee in 2008,[4] and was officially published by Min Huh, Dae-Gil Lee, Jung-Kyun Kim, Jong-Deock Lim and Pascal Godefroit in 2011.[3]
Description
Koreanosaurus was a relatively small dinosaur, reaching 2–2.4 meters (6.6–7.9 ft) in body length.quadruped.[7]
Classification
Koreanosaurus was considered to be a basal member of the Ornithopoda by the authors, forming a clade with Zephyrosaurus schaffi, Orodromeus makelai and Oryctodromeus cubicularis from which they deduced a burrowing lifestyle.[3] Han et al. found it plausible that Koreanosaurus might be a member of Jeholosauridae or closely related to it.[8]
References
- PMC 5648225.
- Yonhap (in Korean). 2010-11-01. Archived from the originalon 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
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- ^ Lee G., 2008, The ornithopod dinosaur (Ornithopoda: Hypsilophodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous Seonso Conglomerate of Boseong County, Korea, master's thesis Chonnam National University
- ^ Huh, M.; Kim, J.G. (2010). "Koreanosaurus boseongensis" (in Korean). 한국고생물학회 정기총회 및 학술발표회. pp. 21–26.
- ^ Holtz, Thomas R. Jr. (2012). Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages (PDF).
Winter 2011 Appendix
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- S2CID 86754247.